page_title: 1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
section_title: Game statistics
hierarchical_section_title: 1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game / Game summary / Game statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Roy Kidd at a luncheon to honor his six years as coach at Madison-Model High School.
context_page_description: The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Eastern Kentucky Colonels and the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens. The game was played on December 18, 1982, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The culminating game of the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Eastern Kentucky, 17–14.
  The game was also known as the Pioneer Bowl, a name that had been used starting in 1971 for various NCAA playoff games held in Wichita Falls. The Colonels, making their fourth consecutive appearance in the I-AA championship game, became the first program to capture two I-AA titles, having previously won in 1979.
caption: Eastern Kentucky head coach Roy Kidd in 2011
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